Caltorguy

For Airplane Makers, The Sky Is Falling

If governments ever decide to take global warming seriously then high speed rail as a far preferable solution to everyone flying everywhere. Air will still make sense for long hauls but everything under 500 miles (which would include most of the Eastern Seaboard and ever, just, New York-Chicago) could be done faster and more efficiently with the kinds of 250 mph trains that are now common place in Europe. Will take significant government investment but we'd be kiidding ourselves if we said the same hasn't been true of air travel.